Algarve Situation Report, Saturday 15th May 2021
5,500 British passengers disembark in Faro on Monday
Turismo do Algarve will be at Faro Airport, next Monday, May 17, to receive all passengers from the United Kingdom, in a welcoming action that will be attended by the president of this entity, João Fernandes.
According to the Associação Turismo do Algarve (ATA), on the first day that non-essential trips to Portugal, announced today by the Government, British tourists arriving in the Algarve, between 9 am and 8 pm, will receive, as offer, a kit of protective masks and a promotional brochure of the region, with tips and suggestions, “so that they can make the most of their stay in the destination safely”, notes the ATA in a statement.
The organization says that on Monday, 17 flights from the United Kingdom and the arrival of 5,500 British passengers are expected in the region.
Pandemic stopped the growth of the last 6 years in the Algarve
The Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR) of the Algarve Region has made available another edition of the “Numbers in Highlight”, this time dedicated to the regional accounts of 2019.
This bulletin follows on from the availability of the final data for the 2018 regional accounts and the provisional data for 2019 by the National Statistics Institute, presenting a summary analysis and evolution of a set of indicators that globally reflect the macroeconomic panorama of the region.
Thus, CCDR refers to the favourable national and international context that led to a cycle of economic growth in which the Algarve region has since 2014 performed almost always above the national average, having even recorded the real rate of change in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) highest in 3 annual periods.
Although in 2018 and 2019 there was a slowdown in growth compared to previous years, the same source points out that the Algarve continued to reinforce its contribution to national GDP, representing almost 4.8% in the last year under analysis.
The provisional data for the 2020 regional accounts will be published in December and will mirror a new cycle, strongly marked by the consequences of the external shock caused by the pandemic, which shook the world and local economy with a special impact on the Algarve as it has an economic base almost exclusively linked to the tourism sector.
Covid-19 Transmission and Incidence Rates Algarve
The Algarve and the Azores have a transmissibility index (Rt) of SARS-CoV2 higher than 1, said the INSA today, advancing that, between 01 and 09 of May, this indicator increased from 0.91 to 0.99 in the country.
According to the weekly report of the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) on the evolution of the epidemic curve, the Algarve presents an Rt – which estimates the number of secondary cases of covid-19 resulting from an infected person – of 1.08 and the Azores of 1.04.
With regard to the remaining regions, Alentejo is now at 1, while the rest have an Rt below this limit: North with 0.92, Centre with 0.93, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo with 0.95 and Madeira with 0.97.
In the previous report, released on May 7, all regions of the country had an average transmissibility index of the new coronavirus below 1, which varied between 0.81 in Alentejo, the lowest, and 0.97 in Madeira, the highest.